Clark Peterson
Chief Executive Officer

Clark’s experience in private and public companies spans almost 30 years, and he has played key roles in leading companies from their beginning days and years to building them to become some of the most respected names in the industry. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Cloud Communications Alliance – the largest alliance of leading cloud communications companies worldwide. He also serves on the Board of Directors of multiple unified communications companies and software as a service companies. Most recently, he served as the President of Vonage Business where he was instrumental in the monumental transformation of Vonage into a leader in the business cloud communications space. Among other accolades, he was recently recognized as one of the 2017 AZ Business Top Vision, Influence, Power Leaders in Arizona as well as one of the Top 20 CEOs in the telecom industry nationally. He was also recognized as “Business Leader of the Year” at the Governor’s Celebration of Innovation.

Tim Lorenz
Chairman

Tim is the General Partner of LK Global, PLC, a member of the State Bar of Arizona, State Bar of Michigan, District of Columbia Bar, and Rechtsanwaltskammer Stuttgart. He holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona. After working several years as an engineer for General Dynamics, he became a patent attorney. His experience includes Snell & Wilmer, LLP in Arizona and Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC in Michigan. He has also been an in-house attorney at Motorola in Arizona. In the early 2000s, he became a founding shareholder of an intellectual property law firm in Arizona, which has evolved into LK Global, PLC – a US/EU firm. The firm has grown to more than 50 attorneys – maintaining offices in seven U.S. states, Germany, and England.

Chris Eusebi
Chief Technology Officer

Chris is an adjunct senior researcher at the RAND Corporation and a principal and practicing patent attorney with LK Global, PLC. Eusebi’s research applies to the international legal system as it relates to intellectual property, forecast evolution of science and technology, and recently developed techniques regarding the detection of disruptive technologies. He has led several projects developing broad-based qualitative measurement tools for the Department of Defense.

John Biernacki
Chief Information Officer

John has been working in large-scale patent portfolio analysis since 1997. He is a co-inventor on patents covering data analysis approaches from that time. His work in this field culminated in the products offered by Ontologics. John worked as a software engineer at both DuPont and NASA’s Lewis Research Center. As a lawyer, John focused on high-tech software patents at Jones Day, and his representative work has included developing the patent portfolios of SAS Institute and Research In Motion. John is an adjunct professor of intellectual property law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and was an adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.